Horsham

Horsham

Having spent so much time in towns and cities abroad and showing the on the blog, I wondered how a post on a West Sussex town might look like.

A view looking down the pedestrianised high street, named West Street.

 Several of the shops have plaques set into the pavement outside their fronts doors such as these two examples.

 Part of the weekly market where traders set up their stalls. To the left is the site of the former Shelley Fountain, named after the famous poet who lived nearby.

 Behind teh fountain is a quiet area with trees, a babbling brook and some seats.

 There are many old buildings in the town centre such as this former merchants house and warehouse. A view of the cornice and the arm of a crane used to lift goods from the wagon to the first floor.

 The bandstand in the Carfax, the old centre of the town.

 The stocks and to teh right, the whipping post.

 A new develoment, built on the site of  nineteenth century church. The spire was funded by a local wealthy family in memory of their daughter and the ground it stood on had a covenant so whilst they could demolish the church, they had to leave the spire and they built the offices around the spire.

 A drinking fountain for humans, and just ten metres away...

 ...a drinking trough for animals, funded by The Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association as per the inscription, now used as a flower box.

 The council offices, in a former stately home on one side of the central park.

 The duck pond in the park.

 The Old Town Hall, formerly offices, then the offices of the Regitrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages and now a restarant.

 The Anchor Hotel, a Victorian building and called the anchor despite being some way from the sea, with some fine architectural features now used as a bar.

 An art deco building currently being converted to a restaurant.

 Another old building dating from 1500 with the typical Horsham stone roof, large flat slabs of sandstone used instead of tiles.

 One of several alleys in the town.

 On old post box and lamp above it at the entrance to an alley.

 The Horsham Museum in the Causeway.

 A view down the Causeway with its wealth of a variety of styles of old buildings.

 An alley off the CAuseway.

 Another couple of buildings in the Causeway with yet more styles of architecture.

 St MAry's, the town church.

 A detail of the spire.

 A Victorian post box set into a wall.